Sunday, February 17, 2008

The good folk at Inked apparently loved my last submission - Bettie Trooper. However, it was pulled from their competition because of the possible copyright infringement of using a stormtrooper helmet in the image. I'm from a generation that grew up with Star Wars (the good ones, not the pants ones), and its imagery has become an essential part of our popular culture, hence it entering into a lot of my art.

Anyhoo, not being easily deterred, I decided to polish up another old piece and pop it into the comp ... Hell's Accordion Angel. Like the last one, their displayed images are a pixelly travesty, but if you have the time please hit the 5th star :)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

I've just submitted a redux of my Bettie Trooper illo to the inked Tshirt competition. Unfortunately the quality of the image, as shown on their site, is so low it makes it look like a pixelly soup. Nonetheless, if you get a chance click on the 5th yellowy star please:)

The nasty pasties at Threadless have decided that Tiki Time was not worthy of being squirted onto their precious fabric. Being a glutton for punishment, I have decided to submit it to the designbyhuman competition. I added a background, changed some elements and put a glowing green halftone effect around our 2 woody lovers.

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About Me

I’m a Web designer/illustrator based in Melbourne. I love going to bands, drinking cups of green tea, supping on pints of stout (Coopers, of course), looking at/doing pop-surrealism art, getting/looking at masterfully done tattoos that have stories, being with lovely people who have lovely smiles and witty and/or poignant things to say. I’m quite fond of verbs.
Plus, I lived in Japan for a while, consequently a lot of my work has been inspired by that wonderful, crazy place.